Gerad Kennedy

Gerard Kennedy was born in Perth on March 08th 1932 and spent most time ofhis childhood in Sydney
with his parents who were also in the show business.

His private life that is only his thing. In his leisure time he likes to be on his 15 mlong
catamaran, rides on with pleasure and likes to read Science fiction books. Inaddition, he is vegetarians and pipe smokers.At first Gerard was a landscape- and journey reporter in Brisbane and later inAdelaide and Melbourne. He then got in into the
acting. Gerard is similarly wellknown as a theatre, film and TV actor. His career started in Melbourne at television where he played a part in choice advertising shipments first. He
receivedhis first TV role later in "Homicide" (1964). Within the last years he has appearedin musicals like "West
Side Story" and "Fiddler on the Roof" (of Anatevka).Since 1976 he has regularly shot films and television films actually. Within theyears to 1992 he could be seen in not some as
19 films. Gerard was veryconvincing in the series "Hunter" and "Division 4" from 1968 to 1975. Hereceived for this one the "Gold Logie Award" as the best actor in 1970 and in1971. In 1976 roles followed like in "Tandarra",
in "Power without Glory", in"Case of the defence" and "Kings Men" as well as in "Moynihan". He had rolesin "Ned Kelly", "Puzzle", "Bluey", "Bellbird", "Bailey's Bird", "Truckies" in1977. Within the years on this Gerard was very
successful and played insuccessful series again and again as "Against the wind", "Statewide 6", "Locusts& Wild Honey", "Sky- ways", "The last Outlaw", "Bellamy", "Carson`s law","Cop Shop", "Country Practice", "Special Squad",
"Five mile creek", "Rattle ofthe golden pennies", "Flight into hell", "Prisoner", "An electric day", "Greatexpectations".Then he joined in in the series "Flying Doctor" in 1988 for the first time. He played a war veteran who returns to Coopers Crossing and dies there of AIDS as
ahero.

He was excellent in this role. For this reason he was also further thenengaged and played the role
of Luke Mitchell to 1991. Luke Mitchell comes as ablacksmith to Coopers Crossing and then stayed there and shall take the pubwhen Vic had decided to lead another life. Then it did not come to that, however.When Maggie Hutton wants to manage a farm with her friend, Luke shall takeher shop. But Luke Mitchell is a man, who
selflessly sets his life again and againone game. Gerard Kennedy then has got out of the series, however.Gerard joined in twice as a guest in "Mission Impossible" in 1989. He also had roles in "Policy Crop", "The Elite", "Acropolis now", "A country practice", "Embassy", "Col
N' Carpenter", "Boys from the bush", "Ebbtide", "Bligh",
"Frontline" within the last few years. He has played a part to this also in "Blue Heelers" and "The Inner Sanctuary". He stood in 1997 in "West Side Story" on the theatre stage once more. It then
became some time quietly around Gerard Kennedy. 1999 he was engaged for the series "Thunderstone". This series is from
the pen nib of the successful producers of `Ocean Girl´. In this series (“Thunderstone”)

Nikki Coghill also joined in. Unfortunately, Gerard played the bad Dr. Pretorius, a wolf in the sheepskin which, however, did not survive
his own machinations in this series. We could see him in "Neighbours", "Blue Heelers",
"The Saddle Club", "Beastmaster and Stingers". Together with Sydney Jackson he has played 2002 in the U.S. film "Blood Crime" as Kaiwanasha. And he appeared himself in the show "The Best of
Aussie Cop Shows". He joined in in
"The Brush Off" with Robert Grubb together and had a guest role in "All Saints" as Nevill West in September 2004. In the mysterious film "Plains Empty" he could be seen in the role of the Old
Fella in 2005, as well as Baxter in "Scooter: Secret Agent" and also in "Dramatically Black". In 2006 he played Trevor`s Boss
in "Humun Lie Detector". Gerard played 2009 in "Underbelly" Graham Kinniburgh. In the successful series “City Homicide” Gerard played also a guest role. In the episode `Protection´ he played the
part of Ralph Druitt. Furthermore he played Mr. Senti in “Hobby farm”.
One still knows about him, that he would have enjoyed becoming an policeman, a teacher or boat designer if it had not worked with the acting.
2012 Gerard starred in several episodes of the TV series "Conspiracy 365" the role of Bartholemew Ormond, and in the short film "Schnipples" the Harold.
2013 Gerard had a role in the movie "Wolf Creek 2". 2014 he played the role of Graham Kinniburgh in "Fat Tony & Co.".